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Established in the 1830s, the Chicago Police Department is the third-largest in the country with more than 12,000 employees. Since 2011, Garry McCarthy has served as superintendent. After homicides spiked in 2012, garnering Chicago national attention, the department has employed a strategy of flooding the city's violence-prone areas with additional officers in the summer, known as the Summer Surge Overtime Initiative.

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Allegations that the Chicago Police Department abuses the rights of people that police detain for questioning have been a central element of the notorious police misconduct issues in this city for decades.
From the torture carried out by former Cmdr. Jon...

A man surrendered to police after barricading himself inside a Lakeview neighborhood apartment Saturday morning for more than four hours.
Chicago Police Department SWAT teams were called about 3:15 a.m. to the 1400 block of West Cornelia Avenue...

As some police departments begin eyeing the use of officer body cameras, the chiefs of police of Park Ridge and Niles are a bit more hesitant to fully embrace the new technology immediately.
For Park Ridge Police Chief Frank Kaminski, establishing...

One man was dead and three other men were injured in separate shootings Sunday morning and afternoon, police said.
Police said that at 2:34 p.m. a 26-year-old man was shot on the 2000 block of West 69th Place in the West Englewood neighborhood.
The...

Two teens, a 15-year-old girl and a 17-year-old boy, were wounded in a gang related shooting Sunday morning on the South Side.
Someone shot the two about 9 a.m. in the 4700 block of South Loomis Boulevard, said Chicago Police Department News Affairs...

A second park board commissioner from North Chicago has been charged with stealing toys collected for the Christmas charity Toys for Tots, authorities confirmed Friday.Jimmy L. Baldwin, 67, vice president for North Chicago-based Foss Park District, was...

There was a time — not so long ago — when the police decided what movies Chicagoans watched. And it is safe to say the current crop of Oscar-nominated films wouldn't have passed muster, what with their depictions not only of sexual acts and drinking and...

The Chicago Police Department in a statement Tuesday night denied accusations in a story by a British newspaper that alleged people have been illegally detained, beaten and denied access to counsel in a Homan Square facility.
The Police Department issued...

If a picture is worth a thousand words, a video is worth a million.
Police videos capturing every interaction from simple speeding citations to felony arrests are invaluable in court, where judges nowadays expect to see video evidence backing up the...

A South Side man shot by police Saturday after officers said he tried to pull a gun on them has been charged with attempted first-degree murder, police said Sunday.
Darell Robertson, 18, of the 7200 block of South Wentworth Avenue in the Englewood...

As his friends are quick to note, Willie Wilson hasn't let his seventh-grade education prevent him from becoming successful.
Wilson is a Louisiana sharecropper's son who has said he left home at 13. He's a janitor who rose to owning McDonald's franchises...

A pancake breakfast to help fund the replacement of 8,000 outdated bulletproof vests used by Chicago Police officers is set for 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Feb. 22 at St. Christina School, 3333 W. 110th St., Chicago, according to a press release from Ald. Matt...

A 33-year-old man was shot and killed Monday morning on the West Side, police said.
Police received a call about the incident at 11:10 a.m., according to Chicago Police Department News Affairs Officer Janel Sedevic.
When they arrived at the scene in the...

Through some social advancements, we at least can be heartened that fewer people are boozing it up and getting behind the wheel to kill themselves and endanger the rest of us.
We finally listened to the experts.
Drunken driving fatalities were down to...

While running for office last year, Gov. Bruce Rauner said he would cut state spending, and that was the key theme of his budget address Wednesday to the Illinois General Assembly.
Rauner said he would increase public education spending by $300...

Four people, including a 16-year-old boy, were wounded in three separate shootings on the South and Near West sides Monday, police said.
The latest shooting happened at 8 p.m. in the 1800 block of South Leavitt Street in the Heart of Chicago...

A man was fatally stabbed Sunday evening during a party in the South Loop, police said.
About 8 p.m. Sunday, the 23-year-old was at a party in the 2300 block of South Michigan Avenue when a couple at the same party got into an argument, police said.
The...

Four people were hospitalized in a two-car accident at O'Hare International Airport early Monday morning, authorities said.
About 12:25 a.m., police and fire officials responded to a two-car crash on a service road at the airport, said Chicago Police...

A Chicago woman wiped tears from her eyes after pleading guilty Thursday to making a false 911 call reporting that a man had fallen into the frigid waters of Lake Michigan near Rogers Beach two years ago.
The Coast Guard dispatched rescue vehicles,...